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The Man Building a “School” Where the Curriculum Is Being Truly Heard
*I would love it if someone could help me turn this interview i did with the chatbot into audio or YouTube video*
The Man Building a “Skool” Where the Curriculum Is Being Truly Heard
Most online communities call themselves schools, academies, masterminds, or “programs”. They promise frameworks, methods, and step-by-step transformations. But the project Leon is building doesn’t start with content.
It starts with something most people are starving for and barely ever get: being fully listened to.
Leon didn’t grow up dreaming of building an online platform. He built the idea out of a wound — and out of a season of life where he realised how quickly the world runs out of patience for real human pain.
“I created this because I know what it’s like to have no family nearby,” he said, “and friends who are too busy — or not deep enough — to truly understand what you’re going through.”
As a solo parent of two young children, he describes periods where he felt like there was nowhere to go, no one to help carry the weight, no place to simply fall apart without consequences.
“That’s not a dramatic statement,” he said. “It’s just modern life. People say ‘reach out’… but the moment you reach out with something real, it often doesn’t fit into anyone’s day.”
That absence became the seed.
And later, as he began supporting other people, something odd and consistent happened: people opened up to him in ways they didn’t with others. They commented on how soothing his voice was. They told him things they didn’t tell family, friends, or colleagues. They seemed to feel safe — not because he was performing a role, but because he could hold the weight of what they were saying without flinching.
“I dreaded the clinical environment,” he said, referring to settings where people can feel assessed, managed, or rushed instead of genuinely met. “When I was going through difficult times… I didn’t find anyone that could really listen.”
Why People Can’t Talk to the People Closest to Them
One of the sharpest observations Leon made wasn’t mystical. It was painfully ordinary.
People often can’t talk to the people they’re closest to.
Family can be too emotionally entangled, too judgemental, or too exhausted. Friends can be loving but shallow. Work colleagues are busy, distracted, or simply not safe. And even if someone does care, they may not have the capacity to sit with the darkest fears without turning it into advice, minimisation, or discomfort.
So people do what humans have always done when the tribe isn’t safe: they go outside their circle.
They look for someone neutral. Someone steady. Someone who can hear the whole thing without weaponising it later.
Leon thinks that’s why his community matters. It’s not competing with friendships or family. It’s filling the gap where people feel they have nowhere to put what’s actually weighing them down.
“Too many of us carry heartbreak, grief, and loneliness alone,” he said. “Friends are often too busy, family may not be present, and most of us have been told to ‘hold it together’.”
But, as he puts it, the weight doesn’t leave because you’re told to be strong.
“The weight doesn’t leave until it’s released.”
The Core Promise: Emotional Decompression Through Words
Leon’s model is simple in concept and deep in effect: when people get to tell the full truth of what they’re carrying — uninterrupted — something in them begins to unwind.
Not because he’s giving them “the answer”.
Because speaking a life story in the presence of someone who truly understands can reorganise the mind.
He described it like this: when someone is able to tell everything that’s weighing them down, they can process feelings through language. That processing becomes release. And with an empathic listener, the speaker doesn’t just talk — they land.
In his words, it helps them “let go” once the story is fully spoken and fully received.
He claims he’s seen people become lighter, calmer, and less haunted by the past — not because they forgot what happened, but because it stops gripping their nervous system like a live wire.
He described it as people moving through life “more easily” and seeming less captured by old pain.
“This space offers something older and simpler than therapy or coaching,” Leon said. “The ceremony of being witnessed.”
In that ceremony, people don’t have to perform healing, explain everything perfectly, or be strong.
“Here, you can cry, speak, sit in silence, or even just rest — while someone steady remains with you the whole time.”
Presence as a Learned Truth
Leon says part of his confidence comes from a personal proof: a past relationship where he learned he could be fully there for someone — not just with words, but with presence.
“Through a past relationship, I learned I could be fully there for someone,” he said. “Not just listening… but being the steady one. The person who can stay.”
He describes the deeper version of that as a kind of embodied reassurance — not a performance, not a technique, but a felt signal: you are safe; you are not alone; someone is here with you. (And if physical comfort ever exists in any context, it’s only by clear consent — never assumed.)
He wanted to bring that same kind of steadiness to others, not just one person.
The Controversial Part: “I’m Not Like Traditional Therapy”
Then Leon said the part that would make certain professionals spit their tea.
He is trauma-informed and certified — but he doesn’t want to be shaped by what he calls “old information”: rigid models, decades-old coursework, and systems that can sometimes turn a human being into a case file.
He’s not rejecting therapy outright. But he is rejecting what he sees as the failure mode of therapy: when the practitioner is half-present, busy writing notes, or “pretending” to understand rather than genuinely tracking the living reality of the person in front of them.
“I haven’t met any other person that can do that,” he said, referring to his style of deep comprehension. “Everyone else is just busy writing notes… faking it. But I seem to really get it.”
He described his experience as visual. As people speak, he sees the story unfold internally. He can picture the events, the emotional landscape, the thread connecting moments — and because of that, he can reflect a kind of recognition back to the person that many have never received.
He doesn’t just say “I hear you” as a social gesture.
He says, essentially: I see it. I get the whole picture.
For some people, that moment alone can be profoundly regulating — because it dissolves the lonely feeling that nobody has ever truly understood them.
“Some People Say I’m Psychic”
Leon doesn’t hide from the stranger edge of his experience.
He said that some people have described him as psychic. In the past he has given “readings” — not with the goal of fortune-telling, but to help people make sense of what they’re experiencing.
His emphasis isn’t on telling people what to do.
It’s on helping them understand their situation clearly — what’s happening within them, what’s happening around them, why certain patterns keep repeating, why certain relationships feel the way they do.
He even said that sometimes, in silence, simply sitting with someone, he can sense what they’re going through. He describes it as reading energy — a kind of non-verbal attunement that informs how he responds.
To sceptics, that might sound like woo.
To people who’ve felt unseen for years, it can feel like oxygen.
Not a Weekly Dependency: Access Without “Therapy-as-a-Treadmill”
One of Leon’s most deliberate design choices is this: he does not want to become a recurring dependency like the stereotype of endless weekly sessions with no felt improvement.
He wants people to have access to him when they need him — but not to feel trapped in a process.
He said he doesn’t want people to “see me every week without any kind of improvement or satisfaction.”
He wants them to want the space.
To choose it.
To come when something is real and present — when they’re carrying something heavy, when they need to speak truth, when they need someone to understand the whole tangled mess without judgement.
And then leave stronger, clearer, lighter — not hooked.
The Hard Problem: Scaling a Human Gift
When asked how he plans to scale this globally, Leon was blunt:
He doesn’t know yet.
He’s in the early steps. He hopes people will find him. He wants an environment where people can access him when needed — ideally in a way that doesn’t dilute the intimacy of what makes his work effective.
This is the core tension for any “human presence” business: the thing that makes it powerful is the thing that doesn’t scale neatly.
Platforms scale. Algorithms scale. “Courses” scale.
Real presence doesn’t scale without trade-offs.
Leon seems to know that — and he’s still choosing to build anyway.
A Different Kind of School
If you strip away the platform name, the labels, and the debates about intuition versus formal training, Leon’s project is built around one idea:
Most people aren’t suffering because they lack information.
They’re suffering because they feel alone inside their experience.
They have never had someone sit with the full truth of their story without flinching, fixing, analysing, or minimising.
Leon is building a “school” that teaches nothing first — and listens first.
A place for people who are tired of shallow conversations, tired of being misunderstood, tired of “going through the motions” with support systems that don’t actually get them.
Whether you call it trauma-informed listening, energetic attunement, intuitive clarity, or simply deep human presence — the need is real.
And if Leon can build a structure that preserves that depth while reaching people beyond his “backyard”, he won’t just be creating another online community.
He’ll be creating something rarer:
A place where people can finally tell the truth — and feel it land.
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